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            Mukilteo, Washington

The Mukilteo Light Station began operation on March 1, 1906. The reknowned lighthouse architect Carl W. Leick designed the Victorian-style lighthouse, with its 38-foot octagonal tower and the attached building for the compressor for the fog horn. The keepers’ houses were built at the same time, as well as the pump house and windmill. The entire light station cost about $27,000. 

The lighthouse was equipped with an oil lamp, which had to be refilled every three hours, and a rotating lens, which had to be wound every three hours using a clockwork mechanism. Oil was also used for the compressor for the fog horn, which protruded from the rear of the building. The present lens is a fourth order Fresnel lens, made in France in 1852 and brought to Mulkiteo when the lighthouse was converted to electricity in 1927. The light has a flash pattern of the two seconds on, three seconds off, a signal unique to Mukilteo. Now totally automated, the light and the foghorn continue to be
maintained by the Cost Guard as working aids to navigation. 

The lighthouse began operation under the US Light House 
Establishment. The US Coast Guard took over operation of all 
Lighthouses in 1939. The Mukilteo Light Statiopn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. In 2001, the US Coast Guard transferred the Mukilteo Light Station property to the City of Mukilteo. 


Mulkiteo Light

-The lighthouse has been in continuous operation since 1906. 
-The lighthouse is 38 feet tall and is one of the shortest in the United States
-The flash pattern is: 2 seconds ON, 3 seconds OFF
-The Mukilteo Light is maintained by the US Coast Guard
-The light was converted from coal oil to electricity in 1927. It was fully automated in 1979
-The lens is a fourth order Fresnel lens (height 28 inches) built in Paris, France in 1852
-The light is powered by a 150-watt halogen bulb. It is on 24/7
-The light can be seen from about 10 miles away on a clear night.


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